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NSF IGERT C-CHANGE Program

Climate Change, Humans, and Nature in the Global Environment:  C-CHANGE is a National Science Foundation IGERT graduate education program in interdisciplinary climate change studies for Ph.D. students in the social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering interested in understanding the human causes and consequences of climate change and in developing strategies for responding to these changes. The program is a collaboration among:

  • University of Kansas (KU) Institute for Policy & Social Research (IPSR)
  • KU Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
  • KU Biodiversity Institute (BI)
  • Haskell Indian Nations University
  • National Autonomous University of Mexico
  • University of Copenhagen

Students wishing to pursue a graduate certificate in Global Climate Change Studies take 12 hours of graduate credit from a menu of new and existing courses at the University of Kansas in three areas:

  • climate change and physical, biological, and human systems
  • climate change history, law, ethics, and policy
  • remote sensing techniques in physical, biological, and social science and engineering to study climate-related phenomena

Students who are selected for this program will have an opportunity to spend two summers working on climate change projects in rural, urban, and indigenous communities in the US and abroad and with government agencies and NGOs in science policy internships.  Students also will have an opportunity to conduct field research on the interaction of human and natural systems in climate change in the US, Mexico, and Greenland.  For further information, contact Joane Nagel (nagel@ku.edu), Sociology and director of IPSR’s Center for Research on Global Change.

 

Project Directors

Joane Nagel, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Director, Center for Research on Global Change, Institute for Policy & Social Research

David Braaten, Geography & Deputy Director, Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets

Leonard Krishtalka, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology & Director, Biodiversity Institute

A.Townsend Peterson, University Distinguished Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology & Curator-in-Charge, Biodiversity Institute

Daniel Wildcat, American Indian Studies, Haskell Indian Nations University & Director, Haskell Environmental Research Studies (HERS) Center
     

Participating Faculty

Sharon Billings, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology/Kansas Biological Survey

Nathaniel Brunsell, Geography/Atmospheric Sciences/CReSIS

J. Christopher Brown, Geography/Environmental Studies/IPSR

Marnie Carroll, Math/Science/Technology, Diné College

So-Min Cheong, Geography/IPSR

Wai Kiong (Oswald) Chong, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

Gregory T. Cushman, History

Dorothy Daley, Political Science/Environmental Studies/IPSR

Dietrich Earnhart, Economics/IPSR

Stephen L. Egbert, Geography/Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program

Johannes Feddema, Geography/Atmospheric Sciences/CReSIS

Craig Freeman, Kansas Biological Survey/Curator-in-Charge, R.L. McGregor Herbarium, BI

Luis A. González, Geology

Richard Hale, Aerospace Engineering/CReSIS

Eric Hanley, Sociology/IPSR

Saralyn Reece Hardy, Director, Spencer Museum of Art

Jay Johnson, Geography

Kelly Kindscher, Kansas Biological Survey/Environmental Studies

Stacy Leeds, Law School/Center for Indigenous Nations Studies

Carlton Leuschen, Electrical Engineering/CReSIS

Xingong Li, Geography/GIS/CReSIS

Jenn-Tai Liang, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering/Dir., TORP (Tertiary Oil Recovery Project)

Enrique Martínez Meyer, Instituto de Biología, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Steven Maynard-Moody, Public Administration/Director, IPSR

Sanjay Mishra, School of Business/CReSIS

Shannon O’Lear, Geography/Environmental Studies/IPSR

Philip Schrodt, Political Science/IPSR

Jorge Soberón, Biodiversity Institute

Donald Steeples, McGee Distinguished Professor of Applied Geophysics

Belinda McSwain Sturm, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering

Barbara Timmermann, University Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

Andrew Torrance, Law School

George Tsoflias, Geology/Geophysics/CReSIS

William Tsutsui, History/Center for East Asian Studies

Cornelius van der Veen, Geography, Glaciology, CReSIS

Stacey Swearingen White, Urban Planning/Academic Director, Sustainability Center

Joy Ward, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Donald Worster, Hall Professor of U.S. and Environmental History





Center for Research on Global Change
Institute for Policy & Social Research
The University of Kansas
1541 Lilac Lane, 607 Blake Hall
Lawrence, Kansas 66044